Jazz Chronicles

It might be a strange way to start a remembrance of a recently deceased artist, but I’ll freely admit that I had a love/hate relationship wi...

I don’t begin to understand the politics or external pressures behind the selection of the annual Pulitzer Prize awards, but it is gratifyin...

I've been working off and on over the past couple of months on a story for DownBeat about a very cool distance education program betwee...

I don’t live in a huge city, but the population is around 750,000 and it is a gigantic tourist draw. There’s no shortage of shoppers in the ...

Apple TV – Apple’s latest innovation, which promises to do for video content what their iPod did for sound – has me thinking about obsession...

A new jazz club, Live @ Courthouse, opens in Toronto March 22 – a new, permanent venue to take up the slack created when the Montreal Bistro...

Are the days of “free” online radio numbered already? A new U.S. tariff on digital music streaming may be the death knell for nascent Inter...

I had an interview yesterday with a musician who, while certainly not a household name himself, is an ongoing member of a band led by one of...

It has taken more than a decade, but it seems that a fair number of jazz journalists are now taking advantage of the Web to augment – and in...

Not music related, unless you want to travel to Ottawa for the 10-day Ottawa International Jazz Festival beginning June 21 or the Ottawa Bl...

Write April 3 on your calendar because that's the day Ojos Negros , a set of duets by Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner, is released by ECM....

I mentioned Phil Nimmons here the other day, and today The Toronto Star’s Ashante Infantry has a nice piece about Nimmons and one of his ma...

I have a deep respect for the generation of Canadians who built the cultural institutions we take for granted today. It’s a generation that ...

Thanks to Italian jazz journalist and editor of the magazine JazzColours Antonio Terzo, here's a compilation of the top 10 CDs of 2006,...

It’s never more evident than during the broadcast portion of the Grammy Awards how poorly jazz is served by network television. As usual, no...

I picked up my well-worn copy of the late Whitney Balliett's compilation, American Musicians II , with the idea of checking out (for pro...

I just heard that one of the most elegant, insightful jazz writers — and certainly one of my biggest influences — died today. Whitney Ballie...

Check this John McLaughlin performance on The Tonight Show out before it gets taken down. Amazing playing!

No, my ears weren't deceiving me; in fact, Wynton Marsalis' From The Plantation To The Penitentiary is even worse than I thought. I...

Whoo, boy! I just got a taste of the forthcoming Wynton Marsalis recording, From The Plantation To The Penitentiary , and if my ears aren...